Neighborhood Voices

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We spent the afternoon in the Saturday Light Brigade Broadcast studios designing pieces to fill out our programming. Some of the girls went into the production booth and used online resources to help them develop a song about radio. We…

Radio Commercials Audio

We're just past the halfway point in the Summer Dreamers Academy for 2010! Today we recorded our commercials and began writing songs and raps to fill out our program for the week. We'll continue working on these tomorrow, as well as begin putting together radio plays for Friday.

Radio Commercials

Today campers listened to "old-fashioned" radio commercials and jingles. Then we decided to make our own products. These included: a Money Vault, a Bully Eliminator, and a portable DJ-booth. The campers wrote "pitches" for their products and jingles too. Tomorrow we'll post the final recordings along with photos of the imaginary products themselves! Great job today campers.

Radio Station Demo, 5 sounds cont’d.

Week 3 found us taking a class trip to the other side of the museum where The Saturday Light Brigade broadcasting studios are located. There we received an interactive demonstration of how radio programming works: playing commercials, using sound-bytes, placing…

Jamie Bell

We're pleased to welcome guitarist Jamie Bell, along with clarinetist Rebecca DeStefano McNeil, as they perform their special mix of Brazilian Choro music, live in our studios.

Sophie Claypole

Young writer and twelve year-old Quaker Valley Middle School student, Sophie Claypole, joins us to read excerpts from some her orignial story, The Problem with Wishes.

Shoemanity

NC State sophomore and Upper St. Clair High School grad Brian Gaudio, along with friends, join us to discuss their unique organization, Shoemanity, which aims to design sustainable solutions that improve quality of life in the rural Dominican Republic and Haiti, through the lens of cultural collaboration.

5 Sound Stories, part 2

Today many campers began to record their "5 sounds stories" using H2s. The kids are now able to use the digital recorders autonomously, and so were able to find quiet spaces to record by themselves. One story involves a boogie-man on a campground, another is a classic tale of cops and robbers. Each story will be infused with sound effects on Monday, after the campers get a tour of our radio station and see how a radio show is put together, hosted by our Director of Education Jeff Baron.

5 Sounds Stories

Today campers listed the sound effects that they liked from this week. Then they had to pick five, and string them together to form a story. Tomorrow, we’ll record them performing both their pieces, and the accompanying sound effects to…

Whisper Tubes

Even though you can’t see it, audio is physical, and we learned that first-hand today when we constructed whisper tubes. Whisper tubes demonstrate how a sound “bounces” from one tube into the next at a 90 degree angle. Even…